Gennaro Malanga

Gennaro "Little Pussy" Malanga (died 2000) was a DiMeo crime family mobster and an enemy of Junior Soprano.

Biography
Gennaro Malanga was born in New Jersey, and he became a member of the DiMeo crime family of the American Mafia. He developed a rivalry with Junior Soprano, who became his arch-nemesis. In 1999, when a handicapped Malanga returned to New Jersey from Florida, Soprano planned to have him killed at Artie Bucco's Vesuvio restaurant in Newark. However, the restaurant was bombed by Tony Soprano's associate Silvio Dante to prevent Bucco's restaurant from losing business; Bucco was able to collect insurance money without discovering Soprano's involvement in organized crime, and Malanga was not killed. Malanga died of natural causes a year later.